What happens when you let evolution play out inside a video game? From digital creatures adapting in real-time to entire ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, says Laurence D Hurst. And it’s happening faster than ever before Wednesday 21 November 2018 12:49 GMT ...

Proteins act as machines within cells to carry out various functions. They are often composed of an assembly of smaller ...

Natural Selection in Real Time "When we made the comparison between the size of the offspring generation and the population before selection, we found a measured, evolutionary response had taken ...

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At ...

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now developed a method that allows for the first time to ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...